Sport: Evasive Action?

The college football market was wide open again. West Point and Annapolis no longer had their wartime corner on talent. Back to Mississippi State went Army's Shorty McWilliams, back to Notre Dame went Navy's Bob Kelly, back to Penn went Navy's Tony Minisi (TIME, Sept. 9). Last week the authorities of the service academies, who had viewed the trend with dignified alarm, got support from a high quarter, Harry Truman's military aide.

Said Major General Harry Vaughan (no West Pointer but a 1916 All-Missouri center at Westminster College): "I got a lot of letters from some proud mamas who wanted to know...

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